Guayaquil, Ecuador (EFE).- Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has formalized a new round of government downsizing, issuing three decrees to merge eight ministries and secretariats.
This measure, announced earlier in June, mirrors a similar consolidation carried out nearly a year ago.
In the decrees released on Friday, the president ordered the merger of the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, and Investments; the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries; and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. These will now be consolidated into a single entity: the Ministry of Economic and Productive Development.
Additionally, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society will combine to form the Ministry of Infrastructure and Technology.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Human Development, and the Secretariat of Management and Development of Peoples and Nationalities will integrate into a new Ministry of Labor and Human Development.
